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Efforts Underway to Rescue Vulnerable Bananas, Giant Swamp Taro, Other Pacific Island Crops

Posted on 24. Nov, 2010 by .

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“Through this project we will bring together 1,000 unique samples of Pacific crops for long-term conservation,” said Dr. Mary Taylor, Manager of the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT) at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). “Crop collections in the Pacific are very vulnerable; all they need is a disease outbreak or a cyclone to destroy the entire collection. These collections are essential if we are going to maintain traditional Pacific crops for future generations.”

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Seeds available now for farmers….

Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by .

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The following seeds are now available for PMN members from  the seed bank. Please send in your requests to Ms Rita Amiki who is in charge of seed production and the seed bank. PMN 1 Ground cover-long Bean Brown seed PMN 2 Ground cover- long Bean Black seed PMN 3 Sweet Basil PMN 11 Snake Bean PMN […]

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Youth groups get involved in root crop bulking

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by .

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3 youth groups are now bulking root crops for KGA for distribution to farmers.  The root crops are farmers best sweet potato varieties from other provinces as well as virus free sweet potato varieties from SPC. The youth groups are located at: Ferasubua and Mana’abu villages in North Malaita Vuranimala youths groups in Central province […]

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